I’d take him over trump, honestly. Vermin strikes me as the kind of dude who would have a pretty elaborate inauguration, go into the Oval Office, remove the boot from his head, sigh, and ask how to hire some professionals to be in charge. He seems like a guy who knows when he’s in too deep, and we could really use one of those right about now.

I feel like Will Smith both grew and destroyed the “music video as credits” thing in the space of like two or three years. That Men in Black song was all the fuck over the radio, and then they were hyping that Wild Wild West single the same way, and then the movie came out. I fear we’re not going to see another Deep Blue Sea-level music video ever again

It is 100% fake, and everything else like it always has been and will be too, forever. People were freaking the fuck out about 2012 just like they were freaking out about Y2K and many other fake apocalypses before. Look up Heaven’s Gate, it was a whole suicide cult geared around the fact that a comet was going near the earth.

Life isn’t a movie, you’re not the kid at the beginning of the movie that is inexplicably given some secret information that the whole world hinges around. Real life is actually mostly pretty boring, and the potentially world-ruining shit is usually in the news. Between nukes and climate change, there’s more than enough real stuff to keep you up at night, you don’t need to watch bullshit on youtube

You’re kind of starting with an absurd premise there. There’s no stereotype about poorly rested people in general being guilty of things. Nobody sees a new mom who hasn’t seen eight hours of sleep in a month and says “look at that criminal.” That said, go do something terrible and then see how you sleep, because it’s going to be bad.

It’s like saying there’s a muted reaction to the sun rising to the east, assuming there was a competing western sunrise that wasn’t allowed to run. Even the concept of another outcome is some fictional shit that gets squashed by reality for several reasons

It makes me sad, honestly. We have these supercomputers that know everything and fit in our pockets and are designed to be accessible by almost anyone, and these folks don’t want it. Im not saying everyone has to sign up for every social media service that gets shit out, but being able to do simple research and satisfy curiosities has never been easier and it’s bizarre not to embrace that

They do. There are always more sad guys willing to join the theatre department in hopes of meeting pretty girls than there are pretty girls in the theatre department. I knew a few of these guys in high school and was a bit of a borderline case for a few years there, and yeah the competition was fierce.

It’s good because it’s the right thing to do, but it’s bad because it means you’re not getting the things you want. This allows this guy to feel like a brave victim and martyr, shouldering his burden with quiet dignity in a world that has left good chivalrous men like him behind. That’s way more fun and psychologically validating than copping to being the ranting creep he actually is

It fucks dudes up, too. There have been a lot of overheard conversations I had something cool to contribute to but didn’t, because I don’t want to give anyone the wrong idea. It’s a weird culture right now.

Seriously, I don’t give a shit if it’s a joke or not. If it isn’t, it’s a meditation on getting rid of term limits. If it is, it’s the president making jokes about abolishing term limits. No version of that is acceptable

Vova or Volodya, according to google. This is why I have a hard time with Russian literature, the nicknames I’m not familiar with. Like if a guy is introduced as Robert and then referred to as Bob, I know what to do that, but I wasn’t raised with the Russian equivalents and it makes it a real slog.

You see a lot of cargo cult grammar with dumber/crazier internet people. Things will randomly start with capitals or be all caps in order to add emphasis, because the writer doesn’t fucking read and because of that isn’t super familiar with what the language looks like written down. The president does that a lot.

The other dead giveaway is shit like “would of” or using their instead of there. That’s stuff you pick up through reading more than remember from school, and it makes it really easy to see who doesn’t read.